John, Clearly O’Berry had access to very good informations. Too bad there is not more of it in the book, or an open access to it... Also, reading this again, those broken valve bridges might be the

Bill I am not a D&RG guy either. The Loree evaluation of the D&RG was commissioned in 1917. Mr Hess did the motive power aspects, Those regarding the narrow gauge power were generally ignored. Hess

Not so long ago ... 1976 apparently. But it dates back to the 1890's. Mike Conder

When did this operation shut down? Some of the structure looks fairly new. Mike Van Hove

... with great views of the interior framing of the top of the Commodore Mine's orehouse on top of the famous bins in Creede. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ksltEh3_s Pardon the multiple postings

Thanks John, great info! Answers plus more. Mike Conder

I'm not a D&RG guy so bear with me... You mention the recommendation by Mr' Hess to replace scrapped locomotives with OF 2-6-6-2s.  Was this recommendation followed?  I don't believe I've ever seen

Mike Recapitulating: The D&RG class 125s, later D&RGW K-27s, were built in 1903 with saturated steam boilers and Vauclain compound cylinders worked by inside Stevenson valve gear and inside piston

The basic framing is in and I've started the road bed. I use splines by sandwiching short blocks between 1/8 th by 1 inch laths. I cut the laths from 1/8th inch doorskin sheets. The blocks are 1

Graeme: When first issued, the kits differed only in the body bolster that was included. One contained an HO standard gauge bolster, and the other an HOn3. Later, they included both in the same kit

A quick look through the two kits and I believe it is only in the trucks. SG wheel sets for all axles. Different tender truck bolsters and the rotary has different side frames (missing the

Gee that was easy, just needed to look a bit closer at the pics. #30 is HOn3 #31 is HO Graeme

Quick question, what is the difference between DP kit 30 & 31? From photos online it looks like kit 31 has more metal detail parts both seem to be based on OM Thanks Graeme Walker Toowoomba Australia

SO I have a question about an earlier evolution of these locos: conversion from compound to slide valve, and when the slope-back tenders were replaced. I thought they were coincident, but I've seen a

Thanks for the link Sebastien The discussion was so informative that I had to update my copy of O'Berry's "Mudhens"! http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,378057,page=1 John Stutz

450, 451 and 457 along with 460 were never converted to piston valves and Walschaerts Valve Gear. They were converted to single expansion slide valves around 1908 retaining their Stephenson Valve

I believe the 460 was the only K-27 that was never converted to walschaerts valve gear. The 462 had no super heater. After contuous shopping, no two K-27's wound up having the same arrangement of

That was Brewster.

Ed Knoob, Prefect. Thanks for the precis. Priceless. Mark K

Earl and Seb, Thanks, that was just the information I was looking for. It's amazing what a wealth of information there is here on these forums. Thanks again all. Scott